What's the oldest piece of ̶s̶h̶i̶t̶ software you had to work with ?

I once had to update an old Perl script, with zero passing tests, 800 line functions, that I couldn't even get to run locally and had to debug entirely inside its Docker container.

15-year-old in-house business process software written in a ball of Perl, VBscript, C++, bash, SQL and PHP.

@djsumdog I bet that was a wonderful moment, damn

@HollowKitty Wut, all those in one software ?

@Jakuho Yes, it's what happens when developers decide the old way of doing things is wrong and decide to insert their pet language/framework into the system instead of following the convention of what's already there. There was a web frontend component that had a mix of vanilla JS, jQuery, and Prototype.

Turbo C

*nostalgia kicks in*

I still have to occasionally maintain a classic ASP app that has comments in it like "Created with Frontpage". Sadly it is the core application for the business that uses it.

We still use Microsoft Access 97...

@csharper We just retired our last Access application. It wasn't 97, but close. It was 2002.

WordPress 🤣 enough said 🤫

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